Thread: mAv1c - Ver. 1.06 Release 07/19/08 - less than 3.5MB total

Please download the newest version of my mAv1c skin below.

Release Version 1.06 - 07/19/08
Download Version 1.06 Here (Less than 3MB unpacked)

Info about the skin:
This skin uses a very small amount of images; two for the bulk of the skin screens
(audio player, audio browser, etc.), two for screens that need more space like the video player or e-mail, two for weather (to be phased out in next release), two for weather detail, two for the OSK, etc.
To compare; most skins need three images for each screen, over 40 to 50 in some skins. This skin has a small "footprint" in terms of hard drive impact. Also, the processor doesn't have to load that many different images, allowing it to run cooler and save power.

Here are some screen shots of the skin (not all screens shown.)
Main Screen:


Main Screen showing VISU and "Mute" Indicator:

To switch between the different AVS styles, press to the left of the album art for the previous Visualization, and to the right of the album art for the next Visualization. To view the visu full screen (not transparent) just press and hold the "VISU" key. To exit full screen mode, press anywhere on the screen.

Main Screen with Speedo Guage showing:

Also showing the new volume slider, laptop battery slider, and volume and battery percentage labels. To hide the volume label, just click on the label itself. Also showing more info that can be toggled by pressing the label area.

Audio Player:


Audio Browser:


Radio Menu:


XM Screen (I don't have XM, so it just used my mp3 playlist: )


Sirius Screen (Again, I don't have sirius, so it used my mp3 playlist, same screen as XM, just changed the tags: )


HD/AM/FM Screen (nope, I don't have HD radio either, so no info to display.)


Video Player (video not captured in screen shot):


Video Browser:


GPS: (iguidance)


Full GPS: (With overlay):

pressing the lower left corner (over the time label) will show or hide the overlay buttons.

Full GPS with iGMenu up (from version 1.05):


Weather:

Shows the slider that shows current temperature up to 120 degrees.

Weather Details:

Pressing anywhere on each column will bring that day's weather up to full screen view.

Menu:


Menu with symbols:


Exit Menu:


Text Color Changer:


Text Color Changer with different color chosen:


Background Chooser:


Background Chooser with skin preview overlay:


Skin Browser:


Web:


Applications browser:


Application Docked: (Notepad)


OSK:





Bug Found - Some of the characters on the top row aren't matched to the right character, but will be fixed in the next release.
This is shared with the hAv1cplus skin, with slight modifications.

Mixer:


Unavailable feature:

This screen should only show on features that I am still developing such as RRConfig, and E-Mail.

Loader Screen:


Default warning screen:


Release and change history:
1.0 - 11/17/07 - Initial public release.
1.01 - 11/17/07 - Added skin preview image, updated mute indicator, other minor fixes
1.02 - 03/29/08 - Transparency set at 66%, Slider bar added to all appropriate screens, OSK revised to match the look of this skin, Weather Details revised to match the look of this skin, added symbols for shuffle and repeat, other minor housekeeping and enhancements.
1.021 - 03/31/08 - Added a button to default the text to white, press and hold it to default to a burgundy background. Also fixed the unresponsive background button in the text color chooser screen.
1.03 - 04/04/08 - Revised mixer screen, folder clean-up, now the skin is less than 2Mb total.
1.04 - 05/06/08 - Added label shadow to most labels, added more obvious mute indicator, added volume slider, rearranged buttons to keep consistency throughout the screens, added full screen GPS with overlay plug-in by ElCamino which brings the total download to about 2.25 MB, other code clean-up. (See notes about release below)
1.041 - 05/06/08 - Fixed shuffle and repeat indicators, skin should open with default text and background colors the first time it's opened. To ensure the shuffle and repeat indicators work, delete the "Webdings 3" font from your C:\Windows\Fonts folder, and then copy the font included in the download.
1.042 - 05/14/08 - While waiting for the overlay plugin (El Camino is taking a break from it right now) and the new official Road Runner update to solve some issues with extra features, this release moves the volume slider elsewhere, and has a few other minor changes.
1.043 - 05/18/08 - Added GPS speedometer, with a toggle to switch between the speedo and the albumart, removed GPSSPD label from main skin, added skin preview over background chooser, once a background is chosen, it now returns to the main screen rather than back in the background chooser, added volume percentage label to all screens, with toggle to show or hide this label, fixed issue with loading FULLGPS without first loading External_GPS.skin thanks to Treetop777, and set a timer so that after 10 seconds of inactivity on the EXTERNAL_GPS.skin it will switch to GPS full screen, skin should no longer appear without text or a background, default button still in place, and redirects to a default warning screen, other minor changes.
1.05 - 05/28/08 - Added CarPC font (download below,) Install this font by copying the file "CarPC.ttf" into your c:\Windows\Fonts folder, With this new font is new labels that can be toggled between words and symbols by pressing and holding the settings button, Updated clickable area on a few buttons, redesigned weather screens, added current temperature slider (takes about 6-10 seconds to update after the weather data is received,) redesigned GPS Full Screen overlay, it now loads directly into fullscreen mode with overlay on top, Added more labels to main screen, read in the info below for what/where the switches are, other code clean-up.
1.051 - 05/30/08 - Added HD/AM/FM radio as well as XM and Sirius skins (code borrowed from teknik2), for now, in the main menu, the radio button has replaced the e-mail button, also, I missed some files from the last release that weren't needed, other minor changes.
1.06 - 07/19/08 - Redesigned GPS screen to show time, trackinfo, and shuffle/repeat, removed "gpsinfo" labels from main screen, added powermon (if you use a laptop, and have registered the .dll) to the "Trackinfo", added laptop battery slider, redesigned flash speedo, removed weathertemp.exe, replaced with rrstrings plugin,


Please report any bugs or issues on this thread.

Note: the shuffle button is the left half of the area (highlighted in red), the repeat button is the right half (highlighted in yellow):
< -- Note that in the 1.02 release this was changed to symbols instead of words, but the clickable area is still the same.
In the 1.04 release, alot of buttons have been moved. The next visualizer and previous visualizer buttons are to the right and left of the album art respectively. To view the visualizer in full screen, press and hold the visu button.

Bug: Included in the 1.041 release is an updated version of Webdings 3. Please delete your old version and re-install the one included in the download to make sure the labels appear correctly.

New font:

note: some images were resized to fit in the box, some images not shown.

Included in the 1.05 release, but you can download just the font here:
<<<Changed with hAv1c+ V3>>> Download link available soon.

I like the "modern" look of it.

I think it's a little different from what's out there now, here's what the audio screen looks like:



The "screen window" in the middle is where a lot of things will go, like GPS, applications, video player, etc. This allows me to use two images each for two screens, and have a really really light skin that works well and looks good.

still considering the name...

Looks good. Buttons a little less transparent maybe? Ilists?

yes ilists, i was playing a little with the transparency, it's at 50% now, and I tried 66% and 75% can't decide on that yet...

I've actually got most of the skin done, but having a strange error, i copied the info from my hAv1cplus skin, which works, but in the PicViewer.skin, it won't show the actual pictures.
I really don't know what I'm missing, other than the placement of the buttons and labels, the code looks the exact same:

from the hAv1cplus skin:

Code:

RoadRunner Skin
RRScreen hAv1c
menu 6 off.png,menu 6 off.png,menu 6 on.png,menu 6 down.png
 
/, INC, FILENAME
INC,color.skin
IL,dl,transparent.bmp,sel.bmp,,2,50,60
 
/, SD, Alignment;Alignment, Disp;MODE, Icon Width, Icon Heigth, Path
SD,00,00,50,50,"$skinpath$Backgrounds","*.jpg",546,328,,,,,,
 
/, A, x, y, w, h, color;RGB
A001,123,18,549,406,0
 
/, S, x, y, w, h, forecolor R;RGB, G, B, backcolor R;RGB, G, B, selected color R;RGB, G, B, select color R;RGB, G, B, trs, font size;FONT, font name
S001,189,271,425,39,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,0,0,0,0,0,0,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,FALSE,22,"BankGothic Md BT"
 
/, B, x, y, w, h, Command;COMMANDCODES, Tooltip
B001,672,76,105,58,"RR Config||WAIT;0.5||ACTIVATE;Road Runner",
B001,672,134,105,58,"CLOSEWINDOW;RR Config - Blue||ACTIVATE;Road Runner",
B002,563,365,105,58,"DAYNIGHTSKIN||LOAD;SKIN_BROWSER.skin",
B02,18,17,105,58,"MENU;MAINMENU.skin",
B02,18,76,105,58,"PLAY",
B03,18,133,105,58,"NEXT",
B04,18,191,105,58,"PREV",
B05,18,250,105,58,"VOL+",
B06,18,308,105,58,"VOL-",
B005,672,17,105,58,"CLOSEWINDOW;RR Config - Blue||WAIT;0.5||EXIT",
B403,18,365,105,58,"MUTE",
B003,672,191,105,58,"UP",
B004,672,250,105,58,"DOWN",
B005,672,308,105,58,"SETVARBYCODE;LISTTEXT;LISTTEXT||SETVAR;background;$picspath$\$LISTTEXT$||SAVETOSKIN;background;$picspath$\$LISTTEXT$||RELOADSKIN||Load;PicViewer.skin",
B005,672,365,105,58,"GAMMA",
B101,123,308,110,58,"WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FRed 255||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FGreen 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FBlue 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=END||RELOADSKIN||Load;PicViewer.skin",
B102,233,308,110,58,"WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FRed 255||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FGreen 128||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FBlue 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=END||RELOADSKIN||Load;PicViewer.skin",
B103,343,308,110,58,"WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FRed 255||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FGreen 255||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FBlue 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=END||RELOADSKIN||Load;PicViewer.skin",
B104,453,308,110,58,"WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FRed 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FGreen 255||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FBlue 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=END||RELOADSKIN||Load;PicViewer.skin",
B109,563,308,110,58,"Load;TextColor.skin||SETVAR;REDSLIDER;255||EVAL;Red;$REDSLIDER$*257||SETVAR;GREENSLIDER;255||EVAL;Green;$GREENSLIDER$*257||SETVAR;BLUESLIDER;255||EVAL;Blue;$BLUESLIDER$*257",
B105,123,365,110,58,"WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FRed 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FGreen 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FBlue 255||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=END||RELOADSKIN||Load;PicViewer.skin",
B106,233,365,110,58,"WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FRed 128||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FGreen 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FBlue 255||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=END||RELOADSKIN||Load;PicViewer.skin",
B107,343,365,110,58,"WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FRed 255||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FGreen 255||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FBlue 255||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=END||RELOADSKIN||Load;PicViewer.skin",
B108,453,365,110,58,"WRITETOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FRed 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FGreen 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=/DEFINE FBlue 000||ADDTOFILE;$skinpath$color.skin;=END||RELOADSKIN||Load;PicViewer.skin",
 
/, L, x, y, w, h, color R;RGB, G, B, font size;FONT, font name, Code;LABELCODES, Tooltip;LABELALIGNMENT
L01,25,425,643,37,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,24,"BankGothic Md BT","TAGARTIST||= - ||TAGTITLE","SCROLL-LEFT"
L02,26,28,87,32,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,22,"BankGothic Md BT","=menu","CENTER"
 
L03a,22,82,59,49,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,32,"Webdings","=4","CENTER"
 
L03b,57,81,59,49,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,32,"Webdings","=;","CENTER"
L04,30,138,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,32,"Webdings","=:","CENTER"
L05,29,195,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,32,"Webdings","=9","CENTER"
L06,31,253,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,36,"Webdings 3","=A","CENTER"
L07,31,311,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,36,"Webdings 3","=B","CENTER"
L08,31,369,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,36,"Webdings 3","=C","CENTER"
L09,680,28,87,32,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,22,"BankGothic Md BT","=back","CENTER"
L012,686,194,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,38,"Webdings","=3","CENTER"
 
L013a,682,252,86,48,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,38,"Webdings","=4","CENTER"
L014,680,321,87,32,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,22,"BankGothic Md BT","=GO","CENTER"
L015,680,379,87,32,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=gamma","CENTER"
L101,133,321,87,30,255,0,0,17,"BankGothic Md BT","=red","CENTER"
L102,229,321,113,32,255,128,0,17,"BankGothic Md BT","=orange","CENTER"
L103,338,321,115,32,255,255,0,17,"BankGothic Md BT","=yellow","CENTER"
L104,455,321,102,32,0,255,0,17,"BankGothic Md BT","=green","CENTER"
 
L109a,566,313,102,32,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,17,"BankGothic Md BT","=custom","CENTER"
 
L109b,566,331,102,32,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,17,"BankGothic Md BT","=color","CENTER"
L105,135,382,87,32,0,0,255,17,"BankGothic Md BT","=blue","CENTER"
L106,230,382,112,32,128,0,255,17,"BankGothic Md BT","=purple","CENTER"
L107,352,382,87,32,255,255,255,17,"BankGothic Md BT","=white","CENTER"
L108,459,382,93,32,0,0,0,17,"BankGothic Md BT","=black","CENTER"
 
L010a,683,67,87,48,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,36,"Webdings 3","=L","CENTER"
 
L010b,680,106,87,29,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=config","CENTER"
 
L011a,680,139,87,29,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=close","CENTER"
 
L0011a,571,371,87,29,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=day","CENTER"
 
L011b,680,160,88,29,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=config","CENTER"
 
L0011b,571,392,88,29,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=night","CENTER"
 
/, I, x, y, w, h, Code;INDICATORCODES
I13,672,426,52,35,"SHUFFLE"
I12,722,426,55,36,"REPEAT"
I01,189,17,425,255,"PICTURE"

END

from this skin:

Code:

RoadRunner Skin
RRScreen hAv1c
menu2 off.png,menu2 off.png,menu2 on.png,menu2 down.png
 
/, INC, FILENAME
INC,color.skin
IL,dl,transparent.bmp,sel.bmp,,2,50,60
 
/, SD, Alignment;Alignment, Disp;MODE, Icon Width, Icon Heigth, Path
SD,00,00,50,50,"$skinpath$Backgrounds","*.jpg",540,324,,,,,,
 
/, S, x, y, w, h, forecolor R;RGB, G, B, backcolor R;RGB, G, B, selected color R;RGB, G, B, select color R;RGB, G, B, trs, font size;FONT, font name
S001,127,373,540,39,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,0,0,0,0,0,0,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,FALSE,22,"BankGothic Md BT"
 
/, B, x, y, w, h, Command;COMMANDCODES, Tooltip
B001,680,76,120,60,"Load;TextColor.skin||SETVAR;REDSLIDER;255||EVAL;Red;$REDSLIDER$*257||SETVAR;GREENSLIDER;255||EVAL;Green;$GREENSLIDER$*257||SETVAR;BLUESLIDER;255||EVAL;Blue;$BLUESLIDER$*257",
B001,680,137,120,60,"DAYNIGHTSKIN",
B003,680,200,120,60,"UP",
B004,680,261,120,60,"DOWN",
B005,680,322,120,60,"SETVARBYCODE;LISTTEXT;LISTTEXT||SETVAR;background;$picspath$\$LISTTEXT$||SAVETOSKIN;background;$picspath$\$LISTTEXT$||RELOADSKIN||Load;PicViewer.skin",
B005,680,383,120,60,"GAMMA",
B02,0,35,120,60,"MENU;MAINMENU.skin",
B02,0,96,120,60,"PLAY",
B03,0,157,120,60,"NEXT",
B04,0,218,120,60,"PREV",
B05,0,279,120,60,"VOL+",
B06,0,340,120,60,"VOL-",
B005,680,15,120,60,"EXIT",
B403,0,402,120,60,"MUTE",
 
/, L, x, y, w, h, color R;RGB, G, B, font size;FONT, font name, Code;LABELCODES, Tooltip;LABELALIGNMENT
L,684,452,105,20,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,15,"BankGothic Md BT","SHUFFLEREPEAT","CENTER"
L,11,5,105,20,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,15,"BankGothic Md BT","TIME","CENTER"
L01,129,436,530,37,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,24,"BankGothic Md BT","TAGARTIST||= - ||TAGTITLE","SCROLL-CENTER"
L09,699,30,87,32,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,22,"BankGothic Md BT","=back","CENTER"
L02,4,48,87,32,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,22,"BankGothic Md BT","=menu","CENTER"
 
L03a,14,105,59,49,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,30,"Webdings","=4","CENTER"
 
L03b,44,104,59,49,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,30,"Webdings","=;","CENTER"
L04,20,165,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,30,"Webdings","=:","CENTER"
L05,20,226,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,30,"Webdings","=9","CENTER"
L06,20,284,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,33,"Webdings 3","=A","CENTER"
L07,20,344,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,33,"Webdings 3","=B","CENTER"
L08,20,407,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,33,"Webdings 3","=C","CENTER"
L012,709,207,75,50,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,33,"Webdings","=3","CENTER"
 
L013a,700,268,86,48,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,33,"Webdings","=4","CENTER",
L014,702,335,87,32,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,22,"BankGothic Md BT","=GO","CENTER"
L015,700,401,87,32,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=gamma","CENTER"
 
L010b,702,87,87,29,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=text","CENTER"
 
L010b,702,102,87,29,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=color","CENTER"
 
L011a,702,146,87,29,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=day","CENTER"
 
L011b,702,162,88,29,#FRed#,#FGreen#,#FBlue#,18,"BankGothic Md BT","=night","CENTER"
 
/, I, x, y, w, h, Code;INDICATORCODES
I12,679,446,59,35,"SHUFFLE"
I13,739,446,59,35,"REPEAT"
I01,127,47,540,324,"PICTURE"

END

in this skin, i moved the config to another skin, as well as the text color presets... so what am I missing?

Also, why does it add spaces and wierd things to the label codes?

Here's a screenshot:

Thinking of names for this skin, and the word Flux keeps coming up. It means the rate of flow of something. This skin is designed to flow well, even on low powered machines. (The skin is very small in terms of impact on the hard drive, even smaller than hAv1cPlus...)

Any thoughts?

working on cleaning up the folder, and this should be released to the public very soon. Still haven't decided the name yet, and I fixed the backgrounds issue... Maybe later tonight this thing will be ready to go. Added some pics to the first post.

Originally Posted by monkeyracer

Thinking of names for this skin, and the word Flux keeps coming up. It means the rate of flow of something. This skin is designed to flow well, even on low powered machines. (The skin is very small in terms of impact on the hard drive, even smaller than hAv1cPlus...)

Any thoughts?

David over at Fluxmedia might not mind, but why confuse things. I thought of Spiral or Slinky when I first saw the pics. Slinky would be great because of all the innuendo that could easily be associated with the old toys and CarPCs.